Rice Womens Soccer

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At Rice - Now in her fourth period as the Rice mind football mentor along with her 12th total on University, Nicky Adams consistently lead the Owls with a passion for the whole world's hottest game and commitment to the school's student-athletes. Adams is unique example where an individual's vocation and avocation tend to be one-and-the-same.

Adams' impact on Rice football is obvious. In her second year at the helm of the program in 2012, a young Owls squad won the Conference USA regular season title. It marked the very first regular period conference tournament within the reputation for the soccer program as well as the accompanying 11 victories was Rice's highest single-season win total in 5 years.

The 2013 squad's mixture of having some crucial seniors graduate alongside an eye-opening range season-ending injuries had been challenging to make sure, but it addittionally could have showcased a number of Adams' best mentoring however.

Even when accidents restricted the Owls' readily available playing personnel to a spot where in actuality the head advisor needed to improvise and commence training a student-athlete from the Rice track group, the woman leadership and fix was more powerful than ever. By getting everybody else to pull collectively she coached the group to an unbeaten level in its last three regular season games to be eligible for the seminar competition. Her Owls in addition almost pulled off the upset of this league's ultimate regular season champion and NCAA participant (Colorado College), only to be edged in overtime. At the end of the year she had coached three people to first team all-conference awards, two of which proceeded to earn all-Central region awards.

Win, drop, or draw, Rice soccer is still acknowledged by the NCAA for the academic success under advisor Adams. In back-to-back many years the nationwide Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) credited the Owls for having among the best staff class point averages in the whole nation.

In Adams' very first full season on helm of system in 2011, Rice football uploaded a link against nationally-ranked BYU (on the way) on the path to the program's very first double-digit win total in 3 years. The Owls won a game title when you look at the C-USA Tournament for the first time since 2007, plus in fact moved undefeated into the tourney before a tie in the semifinal round ended up being determined by penalty kicks. Adams coached four Rice people to all-conference honors and another to all-region standing. Two Owls were named on C-USA all-academic group so that as a group the entire staff's cumulative grade point average was placed among the list of 25 best in the country.

Adams is only the 2nd mind advisor in the reputation for the Rice soccer program. The El Paso native and previous All-America player at Tx A&M had labored on the Rice coaching staff for eight months when she was named this program's Interim Head Coach the last 13 games of 2010. Adams was formally marketed to Rice Head Coach on November 15, 2010 (that has been extra-special for Adams while the announcement ended up being made on her birthday celebration).

Whenever University appointed her the interim mind advisor seven games in to the 2010 season she proceeded to lead the Owls with their most useful meeting begin in college record at 5-0-1. Rice proceeded to qualify for the C-USA Tournament the very first time since 2008 featuring its highest seed for the reason that event since 2007. With Adams at the helm for several 11 C-USA league games, four Owls attained all-conference awards and three had been named on seminar All-Academic staff.